The Burning Of Bridget Cleary: A True Story Angela Bourke Pimlico Αγγλικά Βιβλία Fiction Theatre

In 1895 Twenty-Six-Year-Old Bridget Cleary Disappeared From Her House Rural Tipperary At First Some Said That The Fairies Had Taken Into Their Stronghold A Nearby Hill Where She Would Emerge Riding White Horse But Then Badly Burned Body Was Found Shallow Grave Husband Father Aunt And Four Cousins Were Arrested Charged While Newspapers Clonmel Dublin Cork London Further Afield Attempted To Make Sense Of What Happened This Lurid Fascinating Episode Set Last Decade Nineteenth Century We Witness Collision Town Country Storytelling Science Old New Torture Burning Caused Sensation Which Continues Reverberate More Than Hundred Years Later Winner Irish Times Prize For Non-Fiction Σελίδες: 272 Διαστάσεις: 13X13Cm